Non Newtownian psychology

This morning I realised where Jung and Freud went wrong

They were looking at people’s symptoms – certain conditions like the Oedipus complex – and trying to figure out the causes for each condition as if these were medical conditions.

It never occurred to them that there is a matrix of conditions and matrix of causes and many, many criss-crossing lines between these sets

That is, one psychological condition (as defined by behaviour) can be caused by different experiences in different people.

Most of the common conditions involve some sort of sexual behavior. No surprise there; nature wants us to reproduce and probably sees these conditions as a good thing unless they impact the survival of the children to adulthood.

Because women’s sanity is most likely to affect a child’s survival it can be guessed that women are saner than men due to evolutionary feedback, at least during periods of child raising (and contrary to popular opinion). Maybe they save ‘crazy’ for times when they are not raising kids.